"you're chinese right? do you eat dog?"
why yes, i love the delicious taste of roasted mops.

there are so many hello kitty themed

things at the UCI bookstore.

this campus is so nice. i've been coming here

everyday to work on my research paper on

"Mathematics in Special Education:

Current Challenges, Strategies and Future Directions"

and keep finding more cozy relaxing lounges

and fancy study centers.

zot zot zot.

i want my kiwi friend james,
who is studying architecture at Vic,
to build me a study pod.

i got a mini greenhouse for my preciousssss plants

at ikea yesterday. ellen got a tea tray

and hiroki got a wooden toilet seat cover
(which, he will save until he has
his own apartment in the future).

(zinnias & dahlias^^)

teddy bear pancakes and strawberry mint lemonade

on a sunny monday morning.
!!yay for being home!!

capricorn-may 27th:

"There are people who use your

name as a kind of magic key.

No one knows exactly the people you know

in the way that you know them."

 "why is it snowing on your blog?"

-my mom

we going to da m0ma, da m0ma.

da fwisk, da fwisk!

o0o0 we ride on da air twrain.

me holding things in new york city.

CUPCAKES! BIRDS!! WAFFLES!!!

 P E A C E F O O D  C A F E

i love green juice.

ellen loves chai.

we ♥ strawberry shortcake.

rainy days are here again

(scattered thunderstorms too)

while delirious at the Frick

among all the ingres, manet, and toulouse lautrec,

we ordered star trek tickets and then

bought a lot of unnecessary snacks.

NEW YORK MoMA

i saw my two favorite paintings

(1 version of matisse's the dance

but w/o nasturtiums, and rothko's no. 3/13,

which i wrote a 13 page research paper on once)

midway through our visit, ellen turns to me

and declares "i suddenly remembered i

don't really like modern art"

we got yelled at more but we still took pictures.

"linda comes to new york

and says  o0o00o buildings!"

while ellen was at a doctor's appointment,

i wandered around crate and barrel across the street.

it was like a wonderland inside.

after looking through the cutest

dinnerware designed by marimekko,

i taught an elderly indian lady from new jersey
how to use her iphone's camera

and photographed fancy fruit bowls for her.

 melting weather:

ice cream & the guggenheim.
we got yelled at a bunch for taking pictures inside
the museum, but we kept taking them..
when else will i be able to see a mobile by
alexander calder?! and paintings by mondrian,
miro, picasso and kandinksy all condensed in
a giant snail shaped building?

coleus is my favorite foliage.

also, ellen solved my rainy-day problem and found me

a pair of dark blue oxfords at payless for $7

in the kids section. apparently, i wear a size 4

in little girl's shoe sizes.

reunited with nick!

i opened the door and there he was!

we've only seen each other abroad

 (in new zealand, singapore and malaysia

and now, new york). during his elevator ride up,

he met a lady taking her bird to a "parrot play date"

 nick is great; i think he's the fastest close

friend i have ever made.

"we are born not all at once, but by bits"

tonight, i photographed nyc dancers in brooklyn.
i even gave choreography advice.

some of my best memories at uc santa cruz was

the afternoons spent with may walking through

campus and surrounding state parks.

this was the day we finished classes,

got kombucha and drank it under a tree.

lesson learned today:

do not submit assignments at 11:59pm

it usually works BUT, sometimes,

you don't make it...

 :((

 last day in santa cruz!

*sold my books at various used-bookstores downtown

and got $42 of store credit & cash.

so i bought a waterproof reusable grocery bag,

a book on north korea and asked for the rest in $$.
*now i'm off to donate my clothes.

i also tried baking this today:

kathy and i got macarons & ate them at natural bridges.

 we saw a great blue heron. then i was so overcome with

intense nervousness when it hit me that

i'm leaving santa cruz in 4 days,

so i threw up.

 kathy is such a wonderful person.

she is always so cheerful and warm.

once, she commuted 1.5 hours

to take me out for lunch on my birthday.

she also gave me best cupcake i ever ate.

it was bright pink with heart sprinkles.

two quarters ago, we stayed up until 5am
together working on our assessment on teacher's
attitudes towards multicultural education.